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1537th Army Air Forces Base Unit, 30 September 1944 – 1 August 1945; 75th Air Service Group, 1 May 1947 – 20 September 1948; 367th Air Service Group, 1 May 1947 – 1 November 1949; Guam Air Depot (later Guam Air Materiel Area, Marianas Air Materiel Area) 56th Air Depot Group, Air Technical Service Command, 9 November 1944 – 31 August 1945
Map of the Battle of Guam, 1944, during the Pacific Campaign. Date: 21 March 2012, 21:32 (UTC) Source: This file was derived from: Battle of Guam map.jpg: Author: Battle_of_Guam_map.jpg: Us Military; derivative work: Grandiose
The Battle of Guam (21 July – 10 August 1944) was the American recapture of the Japanese-held island of Guam, a U.S. territory in the Mariana Islands captured by the Japanese from the United States in the First Battle of Guam in 1941 during the Pacific campaign of World War II. The battle was a critical component of Operation Forager.
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Landing beaches on west coast of Guam. On 21 July 1944, United States Marine and Army forces invaded the island of Guam, the southernmost of the Mariana Islands chain in the Central Pacific, with the intent to take control of the island from the Imperial Japanese Army.
Northwest Field (historically Northwest Guam Air Force Base) [1] is a military airfield on the West Pacific island of Guam.Originally built during World War II, Northwest Field was closed as an airfield in 1949 but has been used for other military activity since, including housing a satellite tracking station, air defenses, and being used for training.
The U.S. military maintains hundreds of installations, both inside the United States and overseas (with at least 128 military bases located outside of its national territory as of July 2024). [2] According to the U.S. Army, Camp Humphreys in South Korea is the largest overseas base in terms of area. [3]
Before the B-29s could begin operating against Japan from the Marianas, the islands first had to be taken away from the Japanese. [2] This began with Saipan on 11 June 1944 when a four-day naval and air bombardment of the island began. On 15 June United States Marine units stormed ashore, followed a day later by Army units.